# Recruiting Operations - Company: [Mercor]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $110K – $148K - Posted: March 3, 2026 ## Job description # **About Mercor** Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents. Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices. ## **About the Role** You’ll be the operational backbone behind Mercor’s engineering hiring engine. You will partner directly with at lease one technical recruiter to jointly own a portfolio of requisitions from initial intake through offer and onboarding. In this role, your recruiter partner owns candidate execution and closing; you own the infrastructure, systems, candidate experience, analytics, and process rigor that make high-velocity hiring possible. Together, you operate as a strategic pair responsible for quality, speed, and continuous improvement across your reqs. Our team works 6 days per week (5 days in-office in SF). ## **What You’ll Do** ### **Own End-to-End Recruiting Operations** * Drive scheduling and coordination across screens, take-homes, onsites, debriefs, and offers. * Ensure interview loops are structured, calibrated, and frictionless for both candidates and interviewers. * Maintain pristine ATS hygiene and candidate tracking across every stage. * Proactively identify bottlenecks and unblock processes before they escalate. ### **Partner as a Strategic Recruiting Pair** * Collaborate closely with a dedicated technical recruiter to co-own a set of requisitions. * Participate in intake discussions, funnel diagnostics, and prioritization decisions. * Ensure alignment between sourcing volume, interview capacity, and hiring goals. * Serve as the operational counterweight to recruiter execution. ### **Improve & Implement Process** * Design and implement lifecycle improvements across screening, onsite structure, feedback loops, and offer workflows. * Run pilots on new interview formats, tooling, automation, or candidate experience upgrades. * Standardize documentation, templates, rubrics, and workflows. * Build scalable systems that reduce interviewer load while increasing signal quality. ### **Track Analytics & Funnel Health** * Monitor conversion rates across stages and identify drop-offs. * Analyze scheduling velocity, interviewer bandwidth, and pipeline health. * Surface insights to hiring managers and leadership. * Maintain dashboards and structured reporting for hiring syncs. ### **Elevate Candidate Experience** * Ensure high-touch, thoughtful communication at every stage. * Anticipate logistical friction and resolve it before candidates feel it. * Maintain a consistent, premium experience for senior technical candidates. * Support post-offer touchpoints and onboarding warm-up logistics as needed. ### **Cross-Functional Collaboration** * Work closely with Engineering, interviewers, and leadership to maintain alignment on hiring goals. * Help run hiring syncs, retros, and process audits. * Coordinate across recruiters to ensure consistency across roles and teams. ## **What We’re Looking For** * 2–5 years of experience in recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, talent ops, or high-volume scheduling roles. * Experience with Ashby * Exceptional organizational rigor and attention to detail. * Strong systems thinker; you naturally see inefficiencies and redesign them. * Comfort managing multiple fast-moving requisitions simultaneously. * Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret funnel data and identify improvement opportunities. * Clear, professional written and verbal communication. * Experience working closely with recruiters or hiring managers in a high-growth environment. * High ownership mentality; you operate as if the hiring outcomes are yours. Bonus: * Experience supporting engineering or technical hiring. * Familiarity with ATS systems and automation tools. * Experience running process experiments or pilots. **Benefits** * Bi-annual performance bonus structure * Generous equity grant vested over 4 years * Up to $15k Relocation bonus * $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office) * $1.5K monthly stipend for meals * Free Equinox membership * $200 monthly laundry reimbursement * $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement * Health, Dental, Vision insurance ## Apply [Apply on Mercor]() Canonical job page: